Rochester – Day 2

As I write this, the sun is starting to set and I can hear the sound of trebles undertaking gentle piggyback races – soon they will be summoned to their beds. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The day started early, partly because we needed to be up in time to get to the cathedral to rehearse, and partly because my bed was sufficiently lumpy that I could sleep no more. I’m sure when I was a student the beds were better than this!! Doug and one or two fit people went off for an early-morning run; here they are “warming down”.

Our new WhatsApp choir group had proved a useful way to get messages out to everyone, and we were soon assembled in the Gundulf Tower to rehearse. The music for today’s service was fairly quickly dispatched, and then we settled to the more complex task of getting…